Software Engineering Intern - GitHub Actions

San Francisco, CA (HQ) Engineering

The GitHub Actions team is responsible for the full stack of features and technologies powering the Actions experience on GitHub. GitHub Actions is one of the newest innovations in GitHub. We are building the future of code automation enabling our customers to innovate and collaborate on both their continuous integration / deployment scenarios as well as software development workflows. You can learn more about GitHub Actions here: https://github.com/features/actions. In this role, you will be having the opportunity to work as a full stack engineer delivering features and improvements to the stack powering GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities:

Working with your engineering manager to put a plan for the project you picked for your time at GitHub

Working with PMs and other Engineers to prioritize and execute on the plan

Shipping quality features that our customers will love

Measuring and monitoring the health of your changes in production

Listening to customers feedback and improving your features based on what you learned

What you (the intern) will learn:

What does the full cycle of building production level software looks like.

How to build software with a great team.

How to develop for a large site like GitHub.

Who We Are:GitHub is the developer company. Over 40 million people use GitHub to build amazing things together across 100 million repositories. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed

Trust by Default

Ship to Learn

Own the Outcome

Growth Mindset

Global Product, Global Team

Anything is Possible

Practice Kindness

Why you should join our Summer 2020 Intern Program:At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where over half of our Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The other half of our Hubbers work remotely in countries across the globe.

We love watching talented people learn and explore their skills. Our internships are designed to give you unique work experience by pairing you with real GitHubbers on real projects.

Requirements & Details for GitHub Summer Interns:

You will be based at our headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Our internships are paid and we provide furnished housing in San Francisco.

Your internship will be 10 weeks from June 8th, 2020 to August 14th, 2020. We will accommodate quarter system intern starts.

You must be a student enrolled in a university, community college, associate, or graduate school program to be eligible

You must be returning to school the Fall after your internship (Fall 2020)

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!